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6La conjecture de Ducrot, vingt ans aprèsIn Marion Carel (ed.), Les Facettes du dire : hommage à Oswald Ducrot, Kime. pp. 269-281. 2002.Réponse aux objections soulevées par Oswald Ducrot à l'encontre de mon approche "gricéenne" de la performativité.
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6Response to Frapolli's contribution in the proceedings of the Granada workshop
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6Modes of presentation: perceptual vs deferentialIn Albert Newen, Ulrich Nortmann & Rainer Stuehlmann-Laeisz (eds.), Building on Frege: New Essays on Sense, Content, and Concept, Csli Stanford. pp. 197-208. 2001.Through perception we gain information about the world. We also gain information about the world through communication with others. There are concepts — indexical concepts, such as the concept of the present time ('now') or of the present place ('here') or the concept of oneself — which have a special link to perception. Are there concepts which are tied to communication in the same way in which indexical concepts are tied to perception? After discussing, and criticizing, a deflationary approach…Read more
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5Pragmatics and SemanticsIn Laurence R. Horn & Gregory Ward (eds.), Handbook of Pragmatics, Blackwell. pp. 442-462. 2004.
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5Response to Egré's contribution in the proceedings of the Granada workshop
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5The received view about meteorological predicates like ‘rain' is that they carry an argument slot for a location which can be filled explicitly or implicitly. The view assumes that ‘rain', in the absence of an explicit location, demands that the context provide a specific location. In an earlier article, I have provided a counter-example to that claim, viz. a context in which ‘it is raining' receives a location-indefinite interpretation. On the basis of that example, I have argued that when ther…Read more
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5Response to Fernandez-Moreno's contribution in the proceedings of the Granada workshop
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4Response to Pelletier's contribution in the proceedings of the Granada workshop
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4Indexical Concepts and CompositionalityIn Manuel Garcia-Carpintero & Josep Macià (eds.), Two-Dimensional Semantics, Clarendon Press. pp. 249-257. 2001.In the first part of this paper I sketch a theory of indexical concepts within a broadly epistemic framework. In the second part I discuss and dismiss an argument due to Jerry Fodor, to the effect that any epistemic approach to concept individuation (including the theory of indexical concepts I will sketch) is doomed to failure.
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4The Alleged Priority of Literal InterpretationCognitive Science 19 (2): 207-232. 1995.In this article, I argue against a widely accepted model of utterance interpretation, namely the LS model (literality‐based serial model), according to which the literal interpretation of an utterance (the proposition literally expressed by that utterance) must be computed before nonliteral interpretations can be entertained. Alleged arguments in favor of this model are shown to be fallacious, counter‐examples are provided, and alternative models are sketched.
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3Del Positivismo Lógico a la Filosofía Del Lenguaje Cotidiano:Nacimiento de la PragmáticaPraxis Filosófica 21. 2011.Traducciónes.
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3D'un contexte a l'autreCahiers Chronos 20 1-14. 2008.On distingue différents types de "contextes" à l'oeuvre dans l'interprétation des expressions indexicales, de façon à rendre compte du style indirect libre et de phénomènes apparentés.
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2La philosophie analytique est-elle dépassée? Note sur la philosophie "post-analytique"Philosophie 35 77-86. 1992.
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2Context and Content: From Language to ThoughtContemporary Foreign Languages Studies 1-14. 2011.In this paper I present an overview of my research in the philosophy of language in mind over more than thirty years, from my early work on speech act theory to my current work on mental files. The unifying theme is context-dependence,both in language and thought. I distinguish several varieties of context-dependence and, along the way, provide tentative accounts of various phenomena: performative utterances, indexicals, modulation (metonymy and loose talk, free enrichment), de se thought, the c…Read more
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1Deference and IndexicalityIn Stephen Kosslyn, Albert Galaburda & Yves Christen (eds.), Languages of the Brain, Harvard University Press. pp. 102-109. 2001.
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1Meaning and Force: The Pragmatics of Performative UtterancesPhilosophy and Rhetoric 23 (3): 248-250. 1987.
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1"Ethique et Philosophie Politique", L'age de la Science Lectures Philosophiques (edited book). 1988.
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1Truth-conditional pragmaticsIn Asa Kasher (ed.), Pragmatics: Critical Concepts, . pp. 509-511. 1998.
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1Mental filesIn Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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Une solution médiévale du paradoxe du menteur et son intérêt pour la sémantique contemporaineIn Lucie Brind'Amour & Eugene Vance (eds.), Archeologie Du Signe: Colloque : Papers, Pims. pp. 251-264. 1983.
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Cher Benoît, cher FrançoisIn Jean-Louis Aroui (ed.), Le sens et la mesure : de la pragmatique à la métrique (hommage à Benoît de Cornulier), Honore Champion. pp. 33-52. 2003.